Sure.
Failed and long lasting damage.
Heard of but have not read. I hear the Birchers love Quigley. Irony is that Bill Clinton does as well.
Where did you hear the John Birch society loves Quigley?? Do you know who John Birch was?
The basic thesis of Tragedy and Hope is that he hoped the people he spoke of would be able to accomplish their goals whereas Congressman McDonald almost was able to get an audit of the federal reserve, something that has never been done in the last one hundred years of it's existance.
The Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 had a majority of congress sign on as cosponsors but Pelosi and her enablers were able to bury that bill in committee.
Clinton mentioned Quigley by name as a mentor but then the students at Columbia University voted Quigley as 'most influential professor' for 28 straight years.
I had other reasons for asking if you had read it but since you havn't then I can't ask those questions.
(One question I have for anyone who has read it has to do with the copy I had which had 57 pages missing and another 57 pages duplicated, part the missing pages from the copy I had dealt with sub rosa communications between Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and Hitler and possibly Mussolini.)
Although the book was written over forty years ago it is still very much relative and anyone who wants try to make sense of politics needs to read it.
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposite ideals and policies, one, perhaps of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy
- Carroll Quigley in Tragedy and Hope
"I know of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years in the early 1960s to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies ... but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, (secret)gs and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known."
Dr. Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope
"The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences
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"The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups." Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time (Macmillan Company, 1966,) Professor Carroll Quigley of Georgetown University
"Each measure is passed without great trouble or violent public opposition because the average man does not see at the time, how it can possibly affect his own existence - the only thing he is really interested in. Then, one day, he awakens suddenly to realize all his rights and liberties are gone."
- Ayn Rand
I'm sorry, that was my parody of your equally witless quip. You'll catch little gems like those one day.
I tend to liken Obama to FDR for the simple fact that massive, major bills are being introduced that are laced with government-sponsored programs which will number costs far greater than we can imagine before the half mark of the century. Carter had a slew of bills that picked away at our coffers, whereas BHO and FDR just slapped a few fat ones on the table in a pivotal time for this country. Plus, Carter's presidency was only 90% failure... he DID keep the peace. I don't know how, but he did. He also introduced a lot of domestic programs designed to bring the impoverished into an actual, functioning caste. Jimmy Carter should have been many things, but POTUS was not one of 'em. BHO, however, will leave office having done zilch for this country... unless you count running into a giganto-government pit with no ladders to climb out with as... something.
That makes sense except what was the price of keeping peace??? Putting sanctions on our allies, helping to topple those governments in favor of marxist or islamic dictators who were and still are some of our worst enemies.
BHO will have gone a long way toward making America just like those countries Carter aided, we won't know just how far until he is out of office, if that day ever comes, he has already committed impeachable offenses and doesn't appear to be inclined toward slowing down one bit in his drive to give America a completely corporate fascist controlled government.
